"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:43:20 GMT, Mike Adams wrote:

Yes, this is an interesting point. Did they say "practice approach
approved, maintain VFR", or did they
say "cleared for the approach"? If it's a practice approach in a VFR
environment, it's not all that
unusual to get altitude restrictions, especially to keep you above the
VFR traffic pattern, if they can't
work you in.

Hmmm, never got a practice approach approved.....

I have always received cleared for the "type of approach" approach when I
am doing approaches under VMC.

Maybe practice approach is a regional thing?

Allen

Yes it can be a "regional thing" or more correctly an "airspace" or
"workload" thing.

VFR aircraft making practice approaches are supposed to be provided standard
IFR separation from the time clearance is issued until the MAP. The
phraseology for that is one of the normal approach clearances. See FAAO
7110.65 4-8-11a(2)

However, sometimes full IFR separation not worth the effort so there are
provisions to let VFR aircraft do the approaches pure VFR with no separation
provided. The phraseology for that is "Practice approach approved..." See
FAAO 7110.65 4-8-11a(3)